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A few weeks back we posted about our favorite BitPop site 8bitpeoples. As a follow-up, we thought we would cover another fast growing geek genre, Nerdcore. Nerdcore is a subgenre of hiphop, written to speak to geek culture. Despite the entertaining and humorous lyrics, the production value is high and these artists are not novelty acts. Nerdcore has been around for a while, but seems to be picking up steam.

Here are a couple embedded links to singles at Nerdcore forerunner MC Frontalot’s Website, along with a few of the lyrics about encryption from his song, Secrets From the Future:

Secrets From the Future

Get your most closely kept personal thought:
put it in the Word .doc with a password lock.
Stock it deep in the .rar with extraction precluded
by the ludicrous length and the strength of a reputedly
dictionary-attack-proof string of characters
(this, imperative to thwart all the disparagers
of privacy: the NSA and Homeland S).
You better PGP the .rar because so far they ain’t impressed.
You better take the .pgp and print the hex of it out,
scan that into a TIFF. Then, if you seek redoubt
for your data, scramble up the order of the pixels
with a one-time pad that describes the fun time had by the thick-soled-
boot-wearing stomper who danced to produce random
claptrap, all the intervals in between which, set in tandem
with the stomps themselves, begat a seed of math unguessable.
Ain’t no complaint about this cipher that’s redressable!
Best of all, your secret: nothing extant could extract it.
By 2025 a children’s Speak & Spell could crack it.

Bizarro Genius Baby:

This stuff is awesome. Give it a listen.